About 13 or 14 years ago myself and 7 of my buddies joined up. Wasn't too far and looked like a good deal. A couple of us went out for a tour and rode around with a guy in a white truck who kept saying "now I'm gonna shoot you straight" and "I'll be honest with you". (Should have been my first red flag... why do you have to tell me you are gonna be honest with me? are you normally not honest?) Guy drives us around and says since you have 8 guys and like to duck hunt as well, I will give your group your "OWN" private spot on a small piece of land and only we would have access to it. We went and looked at it and it looked great. Even had a good size lake on it that bordered the neighbors land and he said we could dove and duck hunt even fish as long as we stayed on our side. The fishing was good and things were looking great until opening day, when another large group of hunters were all jammed in that field with us. They were hot and told us to leave. We told them we paid money just like they did. They had been told by the same guy this would be their private spot as well. We made the best of it and hunted one side while they hunted the other. The land owners to the south were upset we were there and started yelling at us once the shooting started. They blared music from their house the entire hunt to try and run us off. It was a good 5-600 yards away behind us, so we just let it go.
Fast forward to teal season. I'm set up on our side of the lake and pop a teal. Thats when all heck broke loose. The land owner lady to the North that shares the lake lost her mind when she heard me shooting. She was obviously whacked out on drugs as she came down her trail to her side of the lake yelling she was going to "F'ing kill me" as she aimed a revolver at me and then shot it over my head. She shot it in the air a couple more times as she came down toward the lake. Cussing the whole time... "I got a gun too you MF... I'll kill you" she screamed. Was the most fear for my life I have ever been in. I yelled at her from my side of the lake to put the gun down and told her we had paid money to hunt here. At this time she was about 80 yards from me and pointed it right at me, then quickly raised over my head and fired another shot up in the air. I almost shot her.
What stopped me? for one, I only had 6's in my shotgun and she was too far to really do anything. As stated I also had no cover. I figured if she had really wanted to kill me she would have been shooting right at me from the start instead of firing way over my head. I yelled to her to calm down and that I was leaving and packing up. When I got to the jeep, I called the police instantlly. They were there within 10 minutes and I filled out an entire police report on the trunk of their squad car. I could barely write it all down because I was shaking thinking I almost actually got into a true gunfight and how close this actually came to ending bad. Within 30 min, reinforcements had arrived and they were on their way going to the house... they had to break the locked gate to get into her property. They told me she was a known meth head and they had dealt with her before.
So after all of this, I called the guy who said he was gonna "shoot me straight"... I believe his name was David, but it was a long time ago and I'm not sure on that. I let him have it. I told him him we wanted our money back and to my surprise, he did actually mail the money back to each of my 7 friends. Mine however, well... it must have got lost in the mail as I never received it.
Now... was it DJ Farms fault the land owners to the south of this private field hated hunters and cranked their stereo? Nope. Was it their fault the Crazy lady to the North acted the way she did? Nope. But this was my experience hunting with their outfit. You are not the first one I have heard of being double booked or having issues out there. You said yourself they double booked you... more than once... already, not sure what makes you think they would not do it again. I cringe every time I hear of that place or drive past Leonard. and thats my